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Three large developments from last Wednesday through Saturday unnerved even some of Donald Trump’s Republican protectors, who had rationalized that, after all, he had cut taxes (mainly on the rich and corporations) and put two conservatives on the Supreme Court bench.
Conservatives themselves are not immune to xenophobia, especially when it comes to Muslims or even fellow Europeans.
There is little difference any longer between moderate social democrats and mainstream conservatives.
The first is austerity, which even the Conservatives have signaled they will abandon.
But as crippling nuclear-related sanctions in recent years brought the Iranian economy to the verge of collapse, Iran’s conservatives were forced to negotiate in good faith with the international community.
While the most effective sanctions had already been lifted, and are unlikely to be re-imposed, Iran’s conservatives have gained political points that they can use against their opponents at home.
Nevertheless, the Conservatives seemed the more normal party of government.
At the same time, Trump realizes that if he embraces legislation preferred by the Freedom Caucus – a bloc comprising the most extreme conservatives in the House, whose members sank the effort to repeal Obamacare – he will lose the political center.
Others suggest that the North Koreans prefer conservatives in power in Seoul and Tokyo, because a more robust vision of national defense in Japan and South Korea will antagonize China, which, isolated in East Asia, will then be more likely to maintain its support for the Kim regime.
If the world has not fallen off the protectionist precipice during the crisis, as it did during the 1930’s, much of the credit must go the social programs that conservatives and market fundamentalists would like to see scrapped.
Their ultra-conservative professors applaud these rants, and although they pay lip service to liberal ideas, they speak less about John Stuart Mill than about obscure 19th century German conservatives.
But our young conservatives have no patience for such arguments.
Gordon Brown is barely surviving as prime minister, and the Conservatives, whose return to power in the next year is almost certain, are as provincially euro-skeptic as ever, if not more so.
Moreover, Ahmadinejad knows that, without Khamenei’s restraint, the clerics would use their political networks among conservatives like the Larijani brothers to limit the president further.
For mainstream parties in France, the Conservatives in the UK, and Trump’s more internationally minded Republican rivals in the US, there is nothing to be gained from copying the arguments of their extremist counterparts.
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Liberal Party, not Labour, was the Conservatives’ main rival in the UK, thriving under the leadership of figures like William Gladstone and David Lloyd George.
The real contenders among economic and political systems seem to be a relatively humane welfare-state capitalism -- which is the system that defeated Communism, but which seems to be falling apart in both Europe and North America; a raw frontier-style capitalism, with few protections for the unlucky -- a system that seems to be the objective of conservatives in the United States, and may be the eventual outcome in much of Europe; and an oligarchy in which the power of the state is used to further the interests of the elite, with little pretense of either socialism or democracy -- the system that now prevails in China and to a lesser extent in some other Asian developing countries, and that could easily become the future of much of the former Soviet Empire.
How reformists regroup, and how the youthful Iranian populace reacts, depends largely on the path the conservatives take.
Similar to reformists, who encompass a broad range of political ideals, Iranian conservatives are a mixed bag.
"It's better for all of us that mainstream conservatives go to parliament, people who are not extremist but pragmatic and moderate," according to the influential newspaper editor Amir Mohebian, who is emerging as the face of Iranian "compassionate conservatism."
Either way, the conservatives must weigh their strategy carefully.
Above all, the conservatives' fate - and the fate of the regime as a whole - depends on the country's punishing economy.
As a 57-year old retired Iranian professional moonlighting as a taxi driver told me, "When your stomach is empty you don't cry for democracy, you cry for bread!"Conservatives, no less than reformers, must come to terms with this reality.
Likewise, pious conservatives and liberal and leftist secular youth, who joined forces in Cairo and Tunis in 2010-2011 to challenge the dictators, have now turned on each other: witness the Egyptian security forces’ appalling massacres of Islamist demonstrators in Cairo recently, following a military coup carried out with liberals’ support.
Leading conservatives in the US – including at the Hoover Institution – have long argued in favor of using established bankruptcy procedures when large financial firms fail.
Likewise, to become eligible for more robust support, including through the earned-income tax credit – a program supported by leading conservatives, such as Speaker of the House of Representatives Paul Ryan – hard-working low-income Puerto Ricans must move to one of the 50 states.
Trump’s Tax on AmericaBERKELEY – Mitch McConnell, the US Senate’s Republican Majority Leader, recently proclaimed that “2017 was the best year for conservatives in the 30 years that I’ve been here,” not least because President Donald Trump’s administration “has turned out to be … very solid, conservative, right of center, pro-business.”
But such efforts cannot obscure the clash between these two histories, reflected perhaps most clearly in the divide between conservatives and liberals on condemning Stalinist repression.
Perhaps an alliance between Conservatives and Liberals – the two parties ostensibly farthest apart in their views – confounded everyone out of their certainties.
Islamic conservatives and fundamentalists go a step further, as they declare that no human invention can equal – much less supersede – sharia law, which amounts to the word of God.
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